Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2015

LOT 260

VACHERON CONSTANTIN REF. 92115 - EXCEPTIONAL COMPLICATED WATCH WITHEIGHT COMPLICATIONS - UNIQUE EXAMPLE IN PINK GOLD Vacheron Constantin, Genève, movement No. 643829, case No. 642972, Ref. 92115. Made in three examples, circa 2000, the present watch unique in pink gold. Extremely fine and unique, large and heavy, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold, hunting cased keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, chronograph, register and moon phases. Accompanied by a Vacheron Constantin box and Certificate of Origin dated 31 October, 2001.

Three-body, bassine et filets, polished, the front cover released by depressing the button at 11 in the band, the interior of the back cover with an engraved portrait, correctors in the rounded band, button in the crown for the start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph. Glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. Solid 18K gold with satine silvered finish, painted Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second chronograph divisions with Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, date, days of the week, months with leap-year cycle concentric with the 30-minute register, aperture for the moon phases with lunar calendar on the edge. Black oxidized gold Breguet hands. Cal. 20'''GC, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, wolf's tooth winding, 36 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronisms and 5 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.